The reconnaissance phase is intended to be used to pull information about the web server for later use by the plugin, or by other plugins. Reporting vulnerabilities in this phase is discouraged.

Example uses of the reconnaissance phase are to spider a site, check for known applications etc.

The reconnaissance phase is executed for each target at the start of each scan.

Each reconnaissance method such expect to take a mark hash ref. It should return nothing.

void recon_method(mark, parameters);
hashref mark
hashref parameters